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Private housing, schools and small shops will be just outside the downtown area, within easy reach of a clear, trout-filled stream just north of the town. There, as one official notes, residents will be able to hear "the wind of the willow, the babble of Deception Creek." Most inspiring of all, on a clear day they will be able to look northwest and see McKinley -the peak that native Alaskans have always called Denali ("The Great One"). Comments City Planner Alan Rivkin of Washington, D.C., a consultant to the commission: "This new capital will be an embodiment of what...
...Montana: Gibson Dam on the Sun River requires new piers and reinforcement. Willow Creek Dam needs major repairs...
...Heian court game called kemari, an aristocratic and pointless kind of football with no rules. The game consisted of several players kicking a bean-stuffed ball around a courtyard in which stood certain trees-cherry, maple, pine, bamboo and (here worked in gold thread into the red ground) willow...
...Easter half at school, when the sun was so hot and the ground so dry that I lay and basked on the grass between shots. I can see the particular spot now, just after turning away from the river and the terrific short hole with the solitary willow behind the green. There was another round at Sandwich, a first round on that noble course before a first University match. There was no lying on the grass that time, but a rush straight from the station to the club-house, and a race round the course in a blue serge suit...
...oldest aircraft on display is Otto Lilienthal's 1894 glider, with its willow-and-bamboo frame and cotton-cloth covering. When Lilienthal died near the turn of the century, his last words were reported to be: "Sacrifices must be made." In the museum's military aviation exhibits, that sense of sacrifice is pervasive, if in a different context. The most durable warplanes are there: the Fokker, Spad XVI (Billy Mitchell's own), P-40E, B26, Spitfire, German Messerschmitt and Italian Macchi MC-202. So is the old workhorse of World War II-and beyond...